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A. HINKEL.

LADYS HAND BAG.

No. 526,037. Patented $ept. 18, 1894.

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WITNESSES UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ADAM HINKEL, OF OFFENBAGH, GERMANY.

LAD-YS HAND-BAG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 526,037, datedSeptember 18, 1894.

' Application filed January 18,1893. Serial No. 458,791. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ADAM HINKEL, a subect of the German Emperor, aresident at Offenbach, near Frankforton-the-Main, Germany, have inventednew and useful Improvements in Ladies Hand-Bags, of .which thefollowingis a'specitication.

My invention relates to that class of bags known as ladies bags intendedto be carried in the hand to contain purses and other small articles,and an object of the invention is to permit the bag to be freely andfully opened without unduly straining the side pieces or arms attachedto the horizontal main bars of the frame, and also to permit the openingand closing of the bag without injuriously affecting the side portionsof the same, the parts of the frame being so adjusted with relation toone another as to protect and fortify one another.

The invention consists of the novel construction of certain of the partsof the frame and their combination and arrangement with the bag, ashereinafter described and particularly set out in the claims at the endhereof. In the accompanying drawings which form part of thisspecification and wherein like letters of reference indicatelike partsin the several views, Figure 1 is a transverse section of a bag frameembodying my invention, and a portion of a bag to which the frame isconnected, the bag being fully opened. Fig. 2 is asimilar view showingthe bag partly opened, and Fig. 3 is a top view of the fully openedframe.

Referring to the drawings, A A indicate the horizontal mainbarspreferably made of angular cross section as shown and to which are attached the stiff leather sides of the bag indicated at E. Near the endsof said bars A and within the space formed by their flanges are securedthe lugs G G to which are hinged as at G O the arms B B, one pair ofsuch arms being provided at each end of the bag and the arms in eachpair being connected by hinges D arranged parallel with the hinges O C.The pivots of hinges C O are placed substantially parallel to the mainbars A A, and the hinges O O are placed within the spaces formed by thehorizontal and vertical flanges or ribs Whichform the angular bars A A.Thus said ribs or flanges serve to protect the hinges O C, and the lugsG G serve to strengthen and stiffen the bars A A.

Owing to the fact that the pivots of hinges C O are arrangedsubstantially parallel to the longitudinal side bars A A, the twomembers of each of the arms B B are compelled to swing from and towardeach other in substantially vertical planes. This avoids a difficultyattending the use of ordinary bags wherein the arms B B are rigidlyattached to the longitudinal side bars A A, namely, that on opening andclosing the bag the metallic frame strongly bends the leather (F) in theends of the bag, and thus owing to the stiffness of the leather at suchpoints, the frame receives injurious strains tending to bend and derangeit. Furthermore, by not connecting the arms B B rigidly to the main barsA Aor forming them in a single bent piece-an advantage is secured infastening the leather to the frame as the fastening may be made moreconveniently and be made more durable.

I am aware that it hasbeen proposed to construct bags having framesconsisting of a pair of horizontal mainbars with longitudinal ribs andtwo pairs of side pieces hinged to each other and to the main bars insuch a manner that these side pieces fold up in the same plane with thetwo longitudinal ribs. This class of bags, however, has never come intogeneral use, principally for the reason that in traveling bags for whichsuch frames are principally intended it is desirable to obtain a clearopening for the full length of the bag as soon as the horizontal mainbars have been separated even to a slight extent only while the bag isbeing opened. The ordinary traveling bag is generally of about the samelength as a shirt folded up in the usual manner. To place such articlein the bag without further folding it would require the opening almostto the fullest extent of the bag, which would place the folding arms inapproximately straight addition to my case, when the bag is closed, thefolding arms being then placed at right angles to the longitudinal barsand in a vertical position, the bag is stiffened and supported.Moreover, my invention is intended for application to so called ladiesbags and only to such small bags made out of stiff leather. In such bagswhere the ordinary construetion of frame is used the stiffness of theleather interferes with and makes difficult the opening of the bag, andthe folds in the leather caused by such construction of frame take upspace unnecessarily, and besides cause the leather so creased to soonwear out and become unsightly. It is obvious also that in my inventionin which all the parts are straight, the leather may be more easilyriveted thereto than to curved stiff frames made of only two rigid mainsections.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A ladys bag having stiff leather sides provided with a frameconsisting of a pair of main bars riveted to the leather sides and twopairs of flat end arms, the members of each pair hinged together andalso hinged to said main bars in planes at right angles to said bars andadapted to fold in planes at right angles to the longitudinal directionsof said bars, substantially as set forth.

2. In a ladys bag the combination with a pair of main bars of angularcross section riveted to the sides of the bag and provided near the endswithin their flanges with attaching lugs, of two pairs of fiat armsriveted to the leather at the ends of the bag, each pairhinged togetherand also hinged to the aforesaid lugs, the hinges connecting said armsto the lugs of the main bars as well as those connecting the members ofthe arms together, arranged to permit the arms to fold in planes perpendicular to the main bars, substantially as set forth.

3. In a ladys bag,a metallic frame consisting of a pair of side bars A Aangular in cross section and provided at their ends beneath the flangeswith lugs G, and two pairs of fiat arms B B, each pair comprising twomembers connected together by hinges D arranged n planes substantiallyparallel with the main bars, said arms B joined to the lugsG on the saidmain bars by hinges arranged to permit the arms to fold in planesperpendicular to said main bars, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

ADAM IIINKEL.

Witnesses:

FRANZ HAHSLACHERS, FRIDERICH QUEHLY.

